Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Ximena Cardinali
Hi, by the way, if you need more extensive debugging you should temporarily > disable the login manager (lightgdm or kdm or so) from the boot scripts. > Today that's done via systemd 'systemctl' but i can't tell you exactly how, > since i'm not using that init system. ​If I'm not mistaken, it sh

Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Michael
Ulff, I lost the thread already, sorry, but just in case you didn't know. Yuo probably have to debug this in 'single user mode' which you can get by grub, if the grub menu displays at all. (Try hitting escape, then chose 'advanced options' or maybe 'e' for edit to see the options). Lookup the

Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Jonas Andradas
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Dirk Griesbach wrote: > Am Di, 05. Mai 2015 um 09:57:17 + schrieb Ulff Kleber: > > The output from grep "(EE)" Xorg.0.log is: > > [26.994] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory > > What's the output of lsmod? Maybe you need to load module vi

Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Dirk Griesbach
Am Di, 05. Mai 2015 um 09:57:17 + schrieb Ulff Kleber: > The output from grep "(EE)" Xorg.0.log is: >  [    26.994] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory What's the output of lsmod? Maybe you need to load module via. > But dmesg | grep -e agp -e drm says: >  [    2.526544] Linux

Re[3]: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Bogdan
> But the logs (point (a)) should give more specific infomation. > Maybe also have a look at /var/log/Xorg.*.log, specifically for (EE) lines. Sorry Ulff, you did this already, my bad :) Did you use any special non-free drivers for your video cad? Maybe they were no longer installed after the up

Re[2]: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Bogdan
06.05.2015 10:16, Eric S Fraga >On Tuesday, 5 May 2015 at 11:43, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 09:57:17AM +, Ulff Kleber wrote: > >> I have no idea what has gone wrong. A laptop with only text mode is fairly > >> useless. > > For the OP, have you (a) looked at the system l

Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-06 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 5 May 2015 at 11:43, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 09:57:17AM +, Ulff Kleber wrote: > >> I have no idea what has gone wrong. A laptop with only text mode is fairly >> useless. >>   > > Only to someone who hasn't put out the effort to learn to do things with > the C

Re: Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-05 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 09:57:17AM +, Ulff Kleber wrote: > I have no idea what has gone wrong. A laptop with only text mode is fairly > useless. >   Only to someone who hasn't put out the effort to learn to do things with the CLI. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning

Graphical display is black after upgrade from Debian 7 to 8

2015-05-05 Thread Ulff Kleber
The system itself is working on my FujitsuSiemens laptop (via text console or ssh) but the graphical display is not anymore. It remains just black. The output from grep "(EE)" Xorg.0.log is:  [    26.994] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory [    27.109] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such